Improve your teaching skills by exploring professional development

Keeping up professional development as a teacher can be hard to fit into a busy timetable. It doesn’t need to be. This online course, broken into simple steps, will help you develop your reflective skills and improve your practice in the classroom.

Join a community of others working in education, share your experiences and grow as a teacher. This is professional development designed to help you respond to your needs and is accessible to everyone whatever level of resource is available in their setting.

What topics will you&nbspcover?

Understanding continuing professional development

Areas for professional development

The challenges and solutions of professional development

Defining and explaining reflective practice

Understanding and using Kolb’s cycle as a reflective tool

Considering peer observations as a means of professional development

Learning through and from classroom observation and peer feedback

Understanding what communities of practices are and why they are important

Exploring a range of online communities of practice

Building the necessary skills for interacting in communities of practice

Refining the skills to observe your own classroom

Exploring the Spiral of Inquiry as a tool for improving classroom practice

Understanding the importance of being a lifelong learner

Creating your own iterative professional development plan

When would you like to&nbspstart?

Available now

Date to be announced

What will you&nbspachieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

Reflect on your own beliefs about teaching, learning and professional development

Explore the characteristics of successful professional development

Apply a range of tools, activities and strategies to reflect on and improve learning and teaching

Identify aspects of your professional practice to develop

Collaborate with and learn from peers by engaging with communities of practice

Develop your own iterative professional development plan

Who is the course&nbspfor?

This course has been especially designed for the needs of teachers in India and similar contexts, particularly those teaching in English or who teach English as a subject. However, it is also relevant for teachers around the world and those who teach subjects other than English.

What do people say about this course?

It was just so amazing to be part of this course, this is my first experience and I must say that as a teacher and as a learner I felt really supported. The knowledge you shared with us is so useful and challenging. Everybody taking this course was so kind and willing to share with others, thank you for all the resources and all the comments and feedback. I think now I feel even more proud of being part of a network of people who care for their learners, it makes me desire to be the best teacher I can be and keep learning to achieve it.